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Commenced:	01/07/2010
Submitted:	10/08/2011
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	168 W. Meadow Rd, Rockland, ME, US
Website:	http://midcoastpermaculture.com/
Climate zone:	Cold Temperate

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Cover crops Sept 2010

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Posted by Jesse Labbe-Watson over 10 years ago

Finish grading, mulch & cover crops

Grading is finished here, many paths are mulched, seed is starting to sprout, and the swing set is relocated.

The higher terraces were seeded to oats and a forage mix of alfalfa, alsike clover, red clover and timothy grass.

The green manure till schedule will begin in 2011. I will till in the verge and reseed with what i have: oats, rye and the alfalfa mix. The idea is to build organic matter content and to try and knock back this quackgrass (Agropyron repens) which is awful in a garden. Though its probably fine as a forage grass.

The nice thing about a tracked machine (as opposed to a wheeled machine like a backhoe) is that the weight of the machine is evenly distributed over the length of the six-foot tracks. So half the weight of the excavator is evenly distributed over the six feet of each track. Which is probably partially why i didn't break a bit of pvc foundation drain pipe.

Lush growth on the lowest two terraces due in part i think to partial shade and greater moisture content.

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